I just installed Read it Later right now…so I will let you know if it sucks.

This Firefox extension allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. A commenter below (Chris) summed it up very well: “It’s a ’staging area’ for bookmarks.”

(via the ideal shower)

There is a growing mountain of evidence that would seem to suggest that multitasking is truly EVIL…

In one of the many letters he wrote to his son in the 1740s, Lord Chesterfield offered the following advice: “There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once, but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.” To Chesterfield, singular focus was not merely a practical way to structure one’s time; it was a mark of intelligence. “This steady and undissipated attention to one object, is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation, are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.” (via the new atlantis)

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Even if you just glance at a popup, read the title of a feed or spend a few seconds replying to a Tweet, you are loosing focus and loosing productivity. You don’t just loose the 20 seconds spent away from your task, but also the first few seconds or minutes when you resume working will not be at peak efficiency, therefore you loose some more there too. (via hack your day)

• Don’t know what this has to do with productivity but it sure is fun…

Windows/Mac OS X only: Freeware application Lego Digital Designer is a virtual Lego kit for your Windows or Mac desktop. Once installed, you can either use LDD to build your own masterpiece from scratch or—if you’re lacking patience—you can get a head start by using one of their starter models. With over 763 brick types to choose from, your LDD-design will have reached well beyond the limits of your normal lego kit. Once you’ve built the perfect prototype, you can upload the results to the Lego web site to order a custom kit with every brick you’ll need included! Lego Digital Designer is freeware, Windows and Mac only. (via lifehacker)

• Enter the “mind like water” state via a Moleskine?

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• A vacation from the Internet?

If you really think that you are obsessed with the internet to the point that it is disrupting your normal life and having an adverse effect on your health, then just take a vacation and don’t carry your laptop with you. Now vacations are meant to keep you away from everything, but those who are addicted to the internet, won’t spare their vacations either. Hence you should make sure that there is no way for you to go online during your vacation. (via dumb little man)

• what is the cost of distractions in the work place?

The average knowledge worker switches tasks every three minutes, and, once distracted, a worker takes nearly a half-hour to resume the original task, according to Gloria Mark, a leader in the new field of “interruption science.” (via new york times)

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